Darkness Quotes - Page 13

You must learn to walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness; then the light will appear and show the way before you.

I said some words to the close and holy darkness and then I slept.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

Whatever alleged 'truth' is proven by results to be but an empty fiction, let it be unceremoniously flung into the outer darkness, among the dead gods, dead empires, dead philosophies, and other useless lumber and wreckage!

Slavery is the offspring of darkness.

The brightest stars emerge out of the blackest darkness

That is the conviction we must come to in our meditation, that the darkness cannot quench the light.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not.

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.

Where there is darkness, let there be light.

We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness.

I love seeing people come out of darkness.

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.

The Bible never tells us to take a blind leap of faith into the darkness and hope that there's somebody out there. The Bible calls us to jump out of the darkness and into the light. That is not a blind leap. The faith that the New Testament calls us to is a faith rooted and grounded in something that God makes clear is the truth.

Beware of injustice, for oppression will be darkness on the Day of Resurrection; and beware of stinginess because it doomed those who were before you. It incited them to shed blood and treat the unlawful as lawful.

We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.

Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.

Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.

The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. The unnamable is the eternally real. Naming is the origin of all particular things. Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations. Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. This source is called darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.

Just as darkness is born of the absence of light, the shadow side of our collective experience is born of ignorance of the underlying truth of the unity of life.

Invoking removes darkness and brings forth radiant lights.